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Portland Indie Game Squad
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The Portland Indie Game Squad is a nonprofit community platform supporting game developers with events, meetups, showcases, dev resources, game jams, and more!
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Hello, fine folks! We have a surprise special announcement stream tonight at 8pm PT to announce something really big. Feel free to hop in and hang then 🌟
www.twitch.tv/pigsquad
"A new foe has appeared" graphic, showing a Mario Kart Question Block as the "unrevealed character" and Cubepig marveling on. "PIGSquad Special Announcement Stream Tuesday 11/24 8pm PT"
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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See you tonight! Come by to play games, meet devs, and give feedback on the games you play! You can bring your game to get feedback on it, too >:)
Details here!
pigsquad.com/events-list/...
Game developers and their laptops set up in a high-ceiling restaurant. Laptops sit atop bistro and dining tables with folks milling about, looking over shoulders, and chatting about gamedev.
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Oh! Tomorrow night we're also going to be distributing some flyers for our Year End event if anyone wants to help post them around town! Hit us up if you want the file to print >:)
"Portland Indie Game Squad Year End Showcase + Silent Auction Benefiting OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital December 8th 7pm-11pm at Urbanite 1005 SE Grand Ave, Portland Food & Bar Available Play games & give feedback Meet people who make games Support OHSU Doernbecher and Extra Life at the event ot raise funds for their Therapeutic Gaming Program Free, All Ages, Masks Required More information at PIGSquad.com" The flyer shows event information framed on laptops, near game controllers, and on a Game Boy, with PIGSquad's mascot Cubepig on the side. The larger flyer shows a photo of folks playing games at an event and an OHSU Doernbecher patient playing games in a hospital bed. "Portland Indie Game Squad Year End Showcase + Silent Auction Benefiting OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital December 8th 7pm-11pm at Urbanite 1005 SE Grand Ave, Portland Food & Bar Available Play games & give feedback Meet people who make games Support OHSU Doernbecher and Extra Life at the event ot raise funds for their Therapeutic Gaming Program Free, All Ages, Masks Required More information at PIGSquad.com" The flyer shows event information framed on laptops, near game controllers, and on a Game Boy, with PIGSquad's mascot Cubepig on the side.
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The shop closes tonight!
Get your Cubepig Castle shirt here:
pigsquad.com/store/cubepi...
Huge thanks to everyone who picked one up - you're supporting the nonprofit in a ton of ways (and also making yourself look really 🆒)
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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This Thursday! It's Feedback Night! 🗣📝
Bring your game out and set it up or just pop by to leave some notes to help along the development of awesome local games. All ages / free / wooooo!
Details here: pigsquad.com/events-list/...
Game developers and their laptops set up in a high-ceiling restaurant. Laptops sit atop bistro and dining tables with folks milling about, looking over shoulders, and chatting about gamedev.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Last chance for you to get your Cubepig Castle shirt, designed by @marlowedobbe.com and printed locally! Sales end next week Tuesday and we're shipping first week of December.
Pick it up before it's gone and support the PIGSquad nonprofit 🏰⚡😍
pigsquad.com/store/cubepi...
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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And we're off! The "Finish Your Game" Jam is pretty long so feel free to pop in at any time to make progress on your projects 😍
itch.io/jam/finishyo...
If you want to do a more traditional jam, the theme is "Second Wind!" First time we've broken a tie with applause at the event and it was fun >:)
"Second Wind" - Black text on white background, with a blue whooshing wind drawing behind the word "Wind" This is the game jam theme for PIGSquad's "Finish Your Game" Jam 2025!
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at the NW Lucky Lab!
We're kicking off the "Finish Your Game" Jam with some team forming, brainstorming, and a theme reveal for those of you needing one :)
Work on an existing game and show us a big ol' progress post by December 1st!
Details here: itch.io/jam/finishyo...
"Portland Indie Game Squad Finish Your Game Jam!" Art by Ragonia The PIGSquad mascot, Cubepig, is being scrubbed and polished up with lotion, an industrial buffer, and a washcloth. Bubbles and suds overflow the sides of the image, piling up to back the event title.
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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"Finish Your Game" Jam kicks off next week!
We're meeting up in NW Portland to meet new folks for team forming and reveal the theme 🎆
Theme suggestions are open to our supporters now at
www.patreon.com/posts/submit...
VERY excited to see what you make and share on December 1st 👀👀👀
"Portland Indie Game Squad Finish Your Game Jam!" Art by Ragonia The PIGSquad mascot, Cubepig, is being scrubbed and polished up with lotion, an industrial buffer, and a washcloth. Bubbles and suds overflow the sides of the image, piling up to back the event title.
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Get ready for our Year End Showcase!
On December 8th, bring out your "Finish Your Game" Jam games or anything else you've worked on over the year for our holiday party ♥
We'll be at Urbanite again with tons of games to play and pals to meet, you can RSVP at
pigsquad.com/yearendshowc... ❄
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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New shirts are UP and ready to order - you can pick yours up at pigsquad.com/store/cubepi...! Once preorders are done, they're gone 😱🏰⚡
Our friends playing Muffles' Life Sentence at PIGSquad's Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2025 Booth. One is wearing the new PIGSquad shirt (and wearing pink cat ear headphones). The co-developer of Super Choppy wears the new PIGSquad shirt while showcasing the rad game, Super Choppy of course, at the PIGSquad 2025 PRGE Booth.
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Tomorrow (Wednesday) evening!
We're hanging out for a Speed Meet and coworking sesh. Bring a lil thing to work on and/or hang out & chat with new folks during a structured meetup activity in prep for next week's game jam ♥
pigsquad.com/events-list/...
PIGSquad members wave at the camera from picnic tables in the foreground of White Owl's lit/covered/heated outside area. Developers are also in the background on additional tables, working on laptops and chatting. Projectors light up the walls, showing Cartoon Network creators Ian & Toby. Can you spot the retro hardware in the pic..?
November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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🧼Tonight & Wednesday🧼
We're doing Speed Meet events to help you meet other devs in prep for next week's "Finish Your Game" Jam!
TONIGHT In Discord
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WEDNESDAY At White Owl in SE Portland
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Huge thanks to @ragonia.bsky.social for art this year :)
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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0hr Game Jam was so fun--you can play the games we made last night from 1am to 1am here:
itch.io/jam/pigsquad...
November 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Aighty so we have a weird lil jam coming up - we're doing the 0hr Game Jam on Sunday at 1am!
We'll be hanging out in Discord while rushing to make something, then playing everyone's games right after. It is a wild 1 hour journey every time and you are welcome to join >:)
itch.io/jam/pigsquad...
"Zero Hour Game Jam with PIGSquad From November 2nd at 1am to November 2nd at 1am Make a game in 0 hours: a once-a-year opportunity when the clocks go back for daylight savings!" The text appears in an RPG text box, surrounded by numerous time-themed videogame characters set over the Chrono Trigger Millennial Fair. Characters include Sonic, Time Wizard, Scissorman, Tick-Tock Jr., Dialga, Cuckoo Condor, and Flash Man. Cubepig is in the corner.
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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🎃UH OH NOW IT'S TONIGHT🎃
Spooky Games Marathon at PNCA in NW
Pop in anytime between 7pm-11pm, we'll be going all night with scary games on stage and available for play in the lobby!
😈 Come in costume too if ya want 😈
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PIGSquadders in a "streaming" setup play the The Night That Speaks on stage. They face forward towards a crowd, lit by orange lights and surrounded by jack o' lantern decorations, playing the game on a laptop in front of them. Behind them is a large projector screen which shows the audience what they're seeing while they play. The photo is from the PIGSquad Spooky Games Marathon 2019.
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🎃TOMORROW (THURSDAY)🎃
It's time to get SO. SPOOKY.
Get ready for our annual Spooky Games Marathon! Join the audience as special guests play through horror games on stage with spooky games available for play in the lobby 👻
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Three women in a "streaming" setup play the original Five Nights at Freddy's on stage. They face forward towards a crowd, lit by orange lights and surrounded by jack o' lantern decorations, playing the game on a laptop in front of them. Behind them is a large projector screen which shows the audience what they're seeing while they play. The photo is from the PIGSquad Spooky Games Marathon 2019.
October 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Our new shirt by @marlowedobbe.com released last weekend at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, now it's available online!
Pick up this rad tee and support our local gamedev community at pigsquad.com/store/cubepi... 🏰⚡
A white-on-black metal/punk t-shirt design by Marlowe Dobbe. Lightning and markings in the sky spell "Portland Indie Game Squad" over the Cubepig mascot rendered as a castle set upon mountains and clouds. The new PIGSquad shirt hanging on a rack in the foreground of PIGSquad's booth at Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2025 Our friend showing off The Forged Curse at Portland Retro Gaming Expo, wearing the new PIGSquad shirt (slightly obscured by awesome SMB3 Mushroom lanyard from the expo). Our friends playing Mama's Sleeping Angels at PIGSquad's Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2025 Booth. One is wearing the new PIGSquad shirt (and wearing pink cat ear headphones).
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Posted a lil recap reel of our time at @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social on Instagram (www.instagram.com/pigsquadpdx/...) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/shorts/TgSif...)
A purple table top with a small marquee-style sign that says "Portland Indie Game Squad" on it. The Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2025 logo is superimposed below. The rest of the table is out of focus with various stickers and flyers on it, and a yellow shirt is hanging in the background.
October 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Note too that if you can't make it tonight and wanna do something fun and gamey and festive, we're also hosting our Spooky Games Marathon next week on Thursday! We'll be checking out some scary games on stage and have lots of fun things to play in the hall 😈🎃
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Three women in a "streaming" setup play the original Five Nights at Freddy's on stage. They face forward towards a crowd, lit by orange lights and surrounded by jack o' lantern decorations, playing the game on a laptop in front of them. Behind them is a large projector screen which shows the audience what they're seeing while they play. The photo is from the PIGSquad Spooky Games Marathon 2019.
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Hey new folks! Really great to meet you at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. We're having a chill coworking evening this Thursday in E Portland if you wanna come hang out, meet folks, and work on stuff in each others' company.
Details here:
pigsquad.com/events-list/...
See ya soon!
A few folks waving and giving thumbs up, turning from their sketch pads and laptops to face the camera at a Portland Indie Game Squad Art/Code Night, which focuses on low-stakes coworking at restaurants and bars around town.
October 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Huge thanks to @marlowedobbe.com for the design, we're so excited to get another shirt out! All proceeds go towards our booth costs, equipment, and showcaser meals at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo :)

This is what the shirt looks like when you put it on btw:
A hanging skeleton prop wearing the new Portland Indie Game Squad shirt. A stacked pumpkin decoration and the Mario Bros 1993 movie poster accompany the skeleton on either side.
October 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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🏰ANNOUNCEMENT TIME⚡
After so many years, we finally have a new shirt design!
CLIMB INDIE MOUNTAIN, ENTER THE GATES, and support our local gamedev community if you have the mettle!
Our new shirt goes on sale this weekend in-person at the @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social, online orders open next week!
A white-on-black metal/punk t-shirt design by Marlowe Dobbe. Lightning and markings in the sky spell "Portland Indie Game Squad" over the Cubepig mascot rendered as a castle set upon mountains and clouds.
October 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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HMMMM we might be announcing something something VERY FUN tomorrow morning? HMM HMMM Can you guess what it is?

Newsletter sub if you're interested 😈
bit.ly/pigsquadnews...
A black and white sketch. But what is it..?
October 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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🗡🧛‍♂️ BE WARY 🕯👻
We're hosting our annual Spooky Games Marathon at the end of the month! Join us October 30th for live Let's Plays of scary games by community members and play awesome games in the Halloweenie halls of the Pacific Northwest College of Art!
Details here: pigsquad.com/events-list/...
A darkly lit room showing a stage where community members are playing and commentating the game "Faith." Red and orange lights cast a lit rim on audience members in front of the stage. The photo is from the 2019 Spooky Games Marathon.
October 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM